Feeling nocturnal? Try these New Orleans restaurants late-night bites

10 p.m. is the unofficial witching hour at New Orleans restaurants. It is the latest most will serve dinner. In fact, it is common to walk into restaurants that claim to close at 10 only to find it shutting down earlier, even on weekend nights.

Rusty Costanza / The Times-PicayuneSmall sandwiches, such as this foie gras BLT with rasberry, are among the tasty offerings at Rambla in the CBD.

There are a handful of conventional restaurants -- which is to say not the late night diners, bars and combination restaurant/nightspots found elsewhere in this guide -- that cater to a more nocturnal clientele, at least during certain nights of the week. These are some of them: